TMS - Footprint Masterclass

A comprehensive footprint and order flow course for traders who want to see the market as more than classic candlesticks — and understand what's actually happening inside each candle. About 10 hours of video walk you step by step through the core concepts, tools, and building blocks of footprint analysis.

Module 0 — Welcome

An introduction to the course, an overview of its structure, and guidance on how to work through the material.

Module 1 — Footprint Elements

The key building blocks of footprint analysis: a foundational overview, Bid & Ask, Delta, Imbalances, Volume Nodes, Absorption, and Exhaustion.

Module 2 — Auction & Market Fundamentals

Core concepts of auction theory and market structure: Auction Process, trend, consolidation, support & resistance, balanced & imbalanced markets, market context, relative changes, liquidity, delta clusters, bad highs & bad lows, accumulation & distribution, tail auction, and exhaustion & stop runs.

Module 3 — Strategies

Eight concrete strategies: Absorption & Auctioning, Auction Imbalance, breakouts, exhausted highs and lows, false breakouts at support/resistance, Initiative Drive, reversal auction, and hidden accumulation.

Module 4 — Practice Material

Additional practical examples and raw material for reviewing, observing, and reinforcing the concepts covered, on your own.

Module 5 — Wrap-Up

A summary of the key material, guidance on next steps, and course completion.

What the Course Gives You

The course gives you structured access to footprint and order flow analysis — it helps you better understand what's happening inside each candle and read market movement through volume, delta, Bid & Ask, imbalances, absorption, and liquidity, not just price.

A major strength of the course is how it combines theory and practice: you don't just learn individual terms, but how these concepts work together — in the context of market structure, the auction process, support and resistance, trending phases, and sideways markets.

The eight included strategies give you concrete application models for better recognizing and classifying typical order flow situations. The additional practice material helps you train hands-on and sharpen your own market reading.

What You'll Learn

By the end of the course, you'll understand the key footprint elements and be able to interpret them independently on the chart: Bid & Ask, Delta, Imbalances, Volume Nodes, Absorption, Exhaustion, and other order flow components.

You'll learn to view market movement in the context of auction theory and to distinguish between trend, consolidation, balance, imbalance, liquidity, support/resistance zones, and exhaustion areas.

Another goal is practical application: you'll be able to better recognize the strategies and concepts covered — Absorption & Auctioning, Auction Imbalance, breakouts, false breakouts, Initiative Drive, or reversal auctions — and build them into your own analysis.

The course's goal is to give traders a deeper understanding of market mechanics, order flow, and footprint charts, so they can prepare their trading decisions in a more structured, deliberate, and traceable way.

About the Instructor

Trading Made Simple / Einfach Traden specializes in practical trading education focused on footprint, order flow, market structure, and rule-based chart analysis. The focus is on making complex market information accessible and helping traders better interpret price movement in the context of volume, delta, liquidity, and the auction process.

The material is based on hands-on intraday trading experience and work with professional analytical platforms such as ATAS. Alongside training content, Trading Made Simple develops its own indicators, strategies, and analytical tools to support structured, traceable market analysis.